Special Report: The Plan to Fight Omicron

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

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🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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In this can’t-miss special episode, Andy talks through what’s happening with Omicron in the US, from the Biden Administration’s newest plan to what to do about holiday travel and gatherings. And as an extra treat, Andy is joined by Zach Slavitt, his younger son and Season 1 co-host, who is back home between semesters from college.

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Check out these resources from today’s episode:

Watch President Biden’s full address on Omicron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHtBYfFc-oA
Read more about the actions President Biden announced today: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/12/21/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-new-actions-to-protect-americans-and-help-communities-and-hospitals-battle-omicron/
Here’s the story about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that Andy mentions in today’s episode: https://apnews.com/article/how-rfk-jr-built-anti-vaccine-juggernaut-amid-covid-4997be1bcf591fe8b7f1f90d16c9321e
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1:12.4	Welcome to the bubble. This is your host Andy Slavitt and I'm here with my
1:17.5	old and longtime co-host Zach Slavitt. Good to be back and good to be back home
1:22.9	from break. Zach's home from college and if you listen in the first season of
1:28.8	in the bubble, Zach and I really did this together. So now that he's home from
1:33.0	college for college break, COVID-free. Great to have him on the show. This is a
1:36.7	special edition to go through the policy response and the plan that President
1:41.6	Biden laid out just earlier on Tuesday for how the country is going to respond
1:49.0	to Omicron and to the challenges of kind of a big wave coming this winter. So
1:56.7	we'll talk a little bit about that. But first, Zach, you saw the speech. Would
2:00.1	you just summarize kind of briefly what President Biden covered today? Yeah. So
2:04.2	I had three main takeaways from the speech. The first one is that Biden's
2:07.9	focusing a lot on supporting hospitals with additional troops with additional
2:12.1	supplies and other means like that. The second was the rapid increase in
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